How do we shift, our societies move, you-I-we transform for flourishing?
3 programs to taste, experiment with for free, to touch-in with.
And, to embrace all the way, should you wish.
Three transformations: Fall 2022
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Metamodern
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Metamodern
We can forecast a more beautiful future and catalyse it. Universally selecting synergies are creating our next narratives, next economies, next systems alleviating much suffering for all.
Meta-modern: Ukraine connections
Kyiv, Ukraine. It is likely you know someone and our entangled connections can be supportive.
In service of this are several articles written in and around the Metamodern Arts Festival Kyiv 2019 and/or associated Emerge gatherings.
Vandana Shiva: On the arrogance of Newtonian power
In the fossil fuel age, Newtonian power “will subjugate nature”
Vandana Shiva talking to Russell Brand on things we learn about together, where we can evolve together.
Initiator: the climate emergency and growing-up
Opportunity and crises—can we support our psychological development and inner transformation to meet present and pressing needs?
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Visions: can and do change the world
Stories from 2030 is about our world, climate crises, disruption, acceleration and transformation.
It is a follow-on from Visions 2100 which was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
Doughnut economics: ambitious talk as action
In coming out of crisis, bouncing beyond the old economics that’s outlived its usefulness, actions speak loudly. Amsterdam and global cities are leading and demonstrating the next economies: these underpin solutions. They’re transformational systems for thriving into pandemic and climate crisis recovery.
Equinoxes: globally connected?
Seek disharmony for peace. Momentarily day and night are balanced at the equinox.
It’s been celebrated across cultures and time.
The Commons: Next economies, politics and culture
Economic commons activities—there are many more already than you think!
These are initiatives that are socially driven. Risks and benefits are shared mutually. We avoid costly overheads and dominating hierarchies.
Wellbeing economy: in the USA
What’s the story? A wellbeing economy in the USA and a world we can create together—we have the resources. What do you envision?
Transformation: 8 steps to a new economy for the 21st century
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
Infinite potential: Antony Gormley and places of transformation
We co-produce our present-futures.
Antony’s quantum cloud sculpture is particles and trajectories. You determine what you see and, similarly, are a co-producer of possible futures.
sp/ns 2: A story upgrade
We need cut through, insight and scaffolding to explore and enable our potentials.
But simplistic solutions fail with today’s emergencies. What about exploring the sublime? The new and upcoming entangled futures? The archetypes we often miss that frame and guide or thinking?
Simple please, not simplistic no.2 Short videos, playlist and photo gallery. Enjoy!
Attractors: strangely, we keep getting pulled in
We already have all the solutions we need to ensure flourishing, alleviate oceans of suffering for all sentient beings and answer pressing emergencies such as climate. Yet, we act too slowly seemingly beholden to outdated ideas. There’s a strange attraction to our old archetypes. It’s time for an upgrade! What do the new ones look like?
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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